Matthew 20:18-20
EasyEnglish Bible
18 ‘Listen!’ he said to them. ‘We are going to Jerusalem. There, someone will deliver the Son of Man to the leaders of the priests and the teachers of God's Law. These Jewish leaders will decide that I must die. 19 Then they will take me and they will deliver me to people who are not Jews. They will laugh at me. They will hit me with whips. Then they will kill me on a cross.[a] But after three days, I will become alive again.’
The mother of James and John asks Jesus for something
20 Then the mother of James and John took them to see Jesus. (Their father was Zebedee.) She went down on her knees in front of Jesus. She asked him to do something good for her.
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- 20:19 At this time, the ruler's soldiers would kill bad people on a cross. Soldiers fixed them to a big cross made from wood. They remained on the cross until they died.
Matthew 20:18-20
New International Version
18 “We are going up to Jerusalem,(A) and the Son of Man(B) will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law.(C) They will condemn him to death 19 and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged(D) and crucified.(E) On the third day(F) he will be raised to life!”(G)
A Mother’s Request(H)
20 Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons(I) came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down,(J) asked a favor of him.
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